A Categories / Products can only be 31 letters?

[liah]

Is there any way to make the name of category longer than 31 letters/signs or whatever it is? There's a limit, how do i change that?

[superprg]

I guess you have to make change in the

admin\categories.php

where it says

 $category_inputs_string = '';
    $languages = zen_get_languages();
    for ($i = 0, $n = sizeof($languages); $i < $n; $i++) {
      $category_inputs_string .= '<br />' . zen_image(DIR_WS_CATALOG_LANGUAGES . $languages[$i]['directory'] . '/images/' . $languages[$i]['image'], $languages[$i]['name']) . '&nbsp;' . zen_draw_input_field('categories_name[' . $languages[$i]['id'] . ']', '', zen_set_field_length(TABLE_CATEGORIES_DESCRIPTION, 'categories_name'));
    }

Might not be the best way, but this is the only one I know of!
San

[liah]

found it, but what should i change?

[superprg]

Well before I suggest the solution I just want to say that be very careful when you edit the code...

So here it is
just after that code say
echo htmlspecialchars($category_inputs_string);

You will get output like

----------
<br /><img src="http://localhost/zencart/includes/languages/english/images/icon.gif" border="0" alt="English" title=" English ">&nbsp;<input type="text" name="categories_name[1]" size = "33" maxlength = "32">

----------
This is the value which is getting assinged to $category_inputs_string
(this step was just for understanding as to whats happening!)

You can change it now by assigning it like this after removing the echo statement

----------
$category_inputs_string='<br /><img src="http://localhost/zencart/includes/languages/english/images/icon.gif" border="0" alt="English" title=" English ">&nbsp;<input type="text" name="categories_name[1]" size = "133" maxlength = "132">';
----------
See how I have changed the value of size and maxlength...

So final code looks like

for ($i = 0, $n = sizeof($languages); $i < $n; $i++) {
      $category_inputs_string .= '<br />' . zen_image(DIR_WS_CATALOG_LANGUAGES . $languages[$i]['directory'] . '/images/' . $languages[$i]['image'], $languages[$i]['name']) . '&nbsp;' . zen_draw_input_field('categories_name[' . $languages[$i]['id'] . ']', '', zen_set_field_length(TABLE_CATEGORIES_DESCRIPTION, 'categories_name'));
    }
	//echo htmlspecialchars($category_inputs_string);

	$category_inputs_string='<br /><img src="http://localhost/zencart/includes/languages/english/images/icon.gif" border="0" alt="English" title=" English ">&nbsp;<input type="text" name="categories_name[1]" size = "133" maxlength = "132">';

[liah]

You've tryed it so you know it's working?

I put

##################################################################################################################################___

$category_inputs_string = '<br /><img src="http://localhost/zencart/includes/languages/english/images/icon.gif" border="0" alt="English" title=" English ">&nbsp;<input type="text" name="categories_name[1]" size = "133" maxlength = "132">';
$languages = zen_get_languages();
for ($i = 0, $n = sizeof($languages); $i < $n; $i++) {
$category_inputs_string .= '<br />' . zen_image(DIR_WS_CATALOG_LANGUAGES . $languages[$i]['directory'] . '/images/' . $languages[$i]['image'], $languages[$i]['name']) . '&nbsp;' . zen_draw_input_field('categories_name[' . $languages[$i]['id'] . ']', '', zen_set_field_length(TABLE_CATEGORIES_DESCRIPTION, 'categories_name'));
}
//echo htmlspecialchars($category_inputs_string);

$category_inputs_string='<br /><img src="http://localhost/zencart/includes/languages/english/images/icon.gif" border="0" alt="English" title=" English ">&nbsp;<input type="text" name="categories_name[1]" size = "133" maxlength = "132">';

##################################################################################################################################___

Correct?

[superprg]

Right...Did that work for you?

[polarduality]

doesn't this change need to happen in the database too?

[liah]

Right...Did that work for you?

Nope, nothing =(

[Ajeh]

Guys ... that is a self-learning function that is based on physical size of the categories_description field length for:
categories_name varchar(32)

As you change the physical size in the database table categories_description it will automatically grow in the code there ...

[liah]

So how do i change the physical size in the database table categories_description?